B. Gaya

Gaya and I met on her Guardian Plot. A small Buddha and a mottled silver sphere overlook an irregular meadow of flowers and grasses. She and I arrange ourselves on pillows, me with a book, her with a pad of drawing paper and a pencil... she begins to draw a rose.

Corvuscorva Nightfire: When did you build the plot we're sitting in, Gaya?
Gaya Ethaniel: Let me check...
Gaya Ethaniel: 18 Aug it says.
Corvuscorva Nightfire: What made you decide to build?
Gaya Ethaniel: Mainly because I wanted to make something in SL.
Gaya Ethaniel: Having my own place was a strong motivation to learn to build although basic skills I used here.
Corvuscorva Nightfire: Tell me about that sphere behind me?
Gaya Ethaniel: That was the first thing that came to me when I was thinking about what to build here.
Gaya Ethaniel: It can have one person sitting inside.
Gaya Ethaniel: I didn't want to build a house but... something to signify a residence.
Corvuscorva Nightfire nods.
Gaya Ethaniel: People draw different ideas about that sphere it seems...
Corvuscorva Nightfire: like what?
Gaya Ethaniel: One says a womb, a mother's womb.
Corvuscorva Nightfire smiles.
Corvuscorva Nightfire: what else?
Gaya Ethaniel: Another said water.

Moon Fargis is a fellow guardian, a builder, landlord for many PaB guardians, and a shape shifter.  His avatar has shown up to the meetings as a Buddhist monk, a singing angel and an extremely playful teddy bear.

Gaya Ethaniel: My original idea began with Moon but added water sound as I went along. Bascially it was Moon Fargis who made it happen (Thanks Moon!).
Gaya Ethaniel: Began with Moon as the Moon*
Corvuscorva Nightfire grins.
Gaya Ethaniel: Not our Moon Fargis
Gaya Ethaniel: Confusing XD
Corvuscorva Nightfire: hahaha.

Corvuscorva Nightfire: When did you start in SL?
Gaya Ethaniel: 17 of June 08
Corvuscorva Nightfire: what brought you here?
Gaya Ethaniel: I was exploring various online environments for marketing opportunities on a project I've been working on in RL.
Corvuscorva Nightfire: How did you come to find out about Play as Being?
Gaya Ethaniel: I began SL with exploring 'Asian' places and came by Zen Retreat of Dakini Rhode.
Gaya Ethaniel: After a while sitting by the tea house, I took a chance and teleported to the old PlayasBeing pavilion.
Gaya Ethaniel: That's how I came across PaB.
Corvuscorva Nightfire: the retreat had not had any people in it?
Gaya Ethaniel: No, I was around during very early hours in SL because I am based in UK.
Gaya Ethaniel: The regular zazen sessions I found out later are held in the middle of my RL night.
Corvuscorva N